Poll: Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., is really popular … among Democrats

Posted at 11:28 am on July 15, 2014 by Jesse M.

According to a new poll from Public Policy Polling (a Democrat-aligned firm), U.S. Senator Thad Cochran, a Republican, is currently drawing most of his support from Democrats.

Cochran is popular with Democrats (58/22 approval) and unpopular with Republicans (39/52 approval): http://t.co/ES03NVZmOf
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) July 15, 2014

Cochran has a 59/20 approval rating with black voters and actually leads Childers 37/36 among them for the general: http://t.co/ES03NVZmOf
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) July 15, 2014

Only 48% of Republicans supporting Cochran in the general right now. 37%- McDaniel supporters- say they're undecided: http://t.co/ES03NVZmOf
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) July 15, 2014

58% think Cochran was rightful winner of GOP runoff, 29% McDaniel. Voters think McDaniel should concede, 50/35: http://t.co/ES03NVZmOf
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) July 15, 2014

Even though most Mississippians think McDaniel should drop it, supporters overwhelmingly think he should keep going: http://t.co/ES03NVZmOf
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) July 15, 2014

81% of McDaniel voters think he was rightful winner, only 10% believe Cochran won. 63/28 opposition to him conceding: http://t.co/ES03NVZmOf
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) July 15, 2014

McDaniel is damaging his image- 29/53 favorability rating and he would actually trail Dem Childers 37/36 in general: http://t.co/ES03NVZmOf
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) July 15, 2014

Romney voters (75%) say they supported McDaniel 56/44 in runoff, but Obama voters (19%) say they voted Cochran 83/17: http://t.co/ES03NVZmOf
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) July 15, 2014

Only 10% of our respondents who voted in runoff were black, but 77/23 support for Cochran enough to put him over top: http://t.co/ES03NVZmOf
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) July 15, 2014

How conservative are McDaniel supporters? 37% say they would support Confederacy in Civil War, 38% for United States: http://t.co/ES03NVZmOf
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) July 15, 2014

Haley Barbour has a 36/42 favorability rating in MS now. Had been among most popular Govs in country in 2011: http://t.co/ES03NVZmOf
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) July 15, 2014

We've done thousands of polls over the last 6 years but there's a lot of stuff in this Mississippi poll we've never seen anywhere else
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) July 15, 2014

Interesting.

Editor’s note: This post has been updated with additional tweets.

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